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How do I maintain Endnote groups when importing to Mendeley?

I am transferring my Endnote library to Mendeley. I have ~500 references organised into ~40 'groups' that I use frequently for quick access to resources & references. I tried to import to Mendeley but everything ends up in "Unsorted".

I asked Mendeley support and their (not very helpful) reply was as follows: "Unfortunately EndNote does not export group structures from the program. The best thing to do in this situation would be to tag documents with the group name and then use the Filter By Tags view in Mendeley Desktop to recreate groups in the program. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you". I think by 'tag' this means add some distinguishing word to some field like the Label field of all references in each EndNote group. There might be some simpler method to separately export each group from EndNote into a Mendeley group.